by Topher Ryals

Category: Books

Here’s my third check-in for the entertainment goals I set for myself at the beginning of the year. It seemed to be pretty simple. Impossible to fail. It’s looking like I was wrong. Here are the goals I set:

Watch 100 movies, at least one each week (never watched before)

Play and finish at least 15 games already in my collection (never finished before, played is okay)

Read 26 books (never read before)

You can check my progress during the first and second quarters of the year here and here. Check my July to September progress below, then let me know how your goals for the year are going.

I started watching King Arthur: Legend of the Sword yesterday. The intro was fine, if unexciting. The growing up montage that followed went on way too long and actively frustrated me. The next sequence wasn’t much more exciting. After all this, I did something I’ve rarely done in the past: I stopped watching.

The Dark Tower is getting torn apart in its reviews and, more importantly, the content of those reviews lets me know it’s not exactly something I need to rush out and see. It’s slipped from “must see in theaters” to “will watch when I can get a cheap rental” territory. Having read almost nothing of the series, I’m sure I could see it and enjoy it enough. But I’m not going to do that.